SOLVED Re: SELECT returnig a constant

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:28:51AM -0400, stan wrote:
> I used to be able to return a constant value in a SELECT statement in
> ORACLE. I need to populate a table for testing, and I was going to do so
> like this:
>
> SELECT
> employee.id ,
> project.proj_no ,
> work_type.type ,
> 'rate' 1
> FROM employee
> CROSS JOIN project
> CROSS JOIN work_type;
>
> This statement works correctly, till I add the last "'rate' 1 line, then it
> returns a syntax error.
>
> How can I do this?
>
Turns out this works.

SELECT
employee.id ,
project.proj_no ,
work_type.type ,
1 as rate
FROM employee
CROSS JOIN project
CROSS JOIN work_type;
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